The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
2007 action film directed by Paul Greengrass / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Although it shares its name with the 1990 novel The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum, its plot is entirely different. The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi and based on a screen story of the novel by Gilroy. The Bourne Ultimatum is the third installment in the Jason Bourne film series, after The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). The fourth film, The Bourne Legacy, was released in August 2012, without the involvement of lead actor Matt Damon, and the fifth film (a direct sequel to Ultimatum), Jason Bourne, was released in July 2016.
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Directed by | Paul Greengrass |
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Story by | Tony Gilroy |
Based on | The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum |
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Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
Edited by | Christopher Rouse |
Music by | John Powell |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $110 million[3] |
Box office | $444.1 million[3] |
Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne.[4] In the film, Bourne continues his search for information about his past before he was part of Operation Treadstone and becomes a target of a similar assassin program.
The Bourne Ultimatum was produced by Universal Pictures and was released on August 3, 2007, and grossed a total of $444.1 million worldwide becoming, at the time, Damon's highest-grossing film with him as the lead. The film received universal acclaim from critics, who considered it to be the best film in the series. It was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2007 and went on to win all three of its nominations at the 80th Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.